Alexander Vikman

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Alexander Vikman is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Vikman has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 28 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Alexander Vikman's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (29 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (22 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (9 papers). Alexander Vikman is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (29 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (22 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (9 papers). Alexander Vikman collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, Germany and France. Alexander Vikman's co-authors include Cédric Deffayet, Gilles Esposito-Farèse, Eugeny Babichev, Ignacy Sawicki, Viatcheslav Mukhanov, Damien A. Easson, Alexey Anisimov, Eugene A. Lim, Oriol Pujolàs and Sabir Ramazanov and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of High Energy Physics and Physical review. D.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Vikman

31 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Covariant Galileon 2005 2026 2012 2019 2009 2005 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Covariant Galileon
    2009 693 citations Cédric Deffayet, Gilles Esposito-Farèse et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  2. Can dark energy evolve to the phantom?
    2005 390 citations Alexander Vikman Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Vikman Czechia 18 2.3k 2.0k 311 151 126 31 2.4k
Jean-Luc Lehners Germany 27 2.1k 0.9× 2.0k 1.0× 730 2.3× 97 0.6× 147 1.2× 77 2.2k
Alberto Salvio Italy 23 1.3k 0.6× 1.4k 0.7× 245 0.8× 116 0.8× 104 0.8× 53 1.6k
Damien A. Easson United States 27 2.4k 1.1× 2.2k 1.1× 503 1.6× 176 1.2× 123 1.0× 53 2.5k
Enrico Trincherini Italy 18 2.2k 0.9× 2.0k 1.0× 360 1.2× 138 0.9× 103 0.8× 30 2.3k
Peter K. S. Dunsby South Africa 28 2.5k 1.1× 2.1k 1.1× 251 0.8× 247 1.6× 55 0.4× 94 2.6k
Eugeny Babichev France 30 3.1k 1.4× 2.7k 1.4× 402 1.3× 239 1.6× 190 1.5× 74 3.3k
Yuri Shtanov Ukraine 16 1.8k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 300 1.0× 85 0.6× 105 0.8× 49 1.9k
Austin Joyce United States 23 2.1k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 354 1.1× 159 1.1× 114 0.9× 40 2.3k
Claes Uggla Sweden 19 1.5k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 325 1.0× 84 0.6× 78 0.6× 71 1.6k
Narayan Banerjee India 24 1.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 336 1.1× 94 0.6× 82 0.7× 98 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexander Vikman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexander Vikman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Vikman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brandenburg, Axel, et al.. (2025). Lattice simulations of axion-U(1) inflation: gravitational waves, magnetic fields, and scalar statistics. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(5). 79–79. 3 indexed citations
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Sawicki, Ignacy, et al.. (2025). Causality and stability from acoustic geometry. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(10). 1 indexed citations
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Ramazanov, Sabir, et al.. (2025). Numerical analysis of melting domain walls and their gravitational waves. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(2). 64–64. 4 indexed citations
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Babichev, Eugeny, et al.. (2025). Biased domain walls: faster annihilation, weaker gravitational waves. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(10). 103–103. 1 indexed citations
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Deffayet, Cédric, Aaron Held, Shinji Mukohyama, & Alexander Vikman. (2025). Ghostly interactions in (1+1)-dimensional classical field theory. Physical review. D. 112(6). 5 indexed citations
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Babichev, Eugeny, et al.. (2024). Revisiting evolution of domain walls and their gravitational radiation with CosmoLattice. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(9). 47–47. 11 indexed citations
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Vikman, Alexander, et al.. (2023). New dynamical degrees of freedom from invertible transformations. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(7). 9 indexed citations
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Deffayet, Cédric, Aaron Held, Shinji Mukohyama, & Alexander Vikman. (2023). Global and local stability for ghosts coupled to positive energy degrees of freedom. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(11). 31–31. 25 indexed citations
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Deffayet, Cédric, Shinji Mukohyama, & Alexander Vikman. (2022). Ghosts without Runaway Instabilities. Physical Review Letters. 128(4). 41301–41301. 38 indexed citations
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Barvinsky, A. O., et al.. (2021). Generalized unimodular gravity as a new form of k-essence. Physical review. D. 103(6). 7 indexed citations
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Babichev, Eugeny, Sabir Ramazanov, & Alexander Vikman. (2018). Recovering P(X) from a canonical complex field. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2018(11). 23–23. 19 indexed citations
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Vikman, Alexander. (2012). Suppressing Quantum Fluctuations. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Easson, Damien A., Ignacy Sawicki, & Alexander Vikman. (2011). G-bounce. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2011(11). 21–21. 176 indexed citations
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Pujolàs, Oriol, Ignacy Sawicki, & Alexander Vikman. (2011). The imperfect fluid behind kinetic gravity braiding. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2011(11). 121 indexed citations
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Lim, Eugene A., Ignacy Sawicki, & Alexander Vikman. (2010). Dust of dark energy. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2010(5). 12–12. 133 indexed citations
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Akhoury, Ratindranath, C. Gauthier, & Alexander Vikman. (2009). Stationary configurations imply shift symmetry: no Bondi accretion for quintessence/k-essence. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2009(3). 82–82. 26 indexed citations
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Deffayet, Cédric, Gilles Esposito-Farèse, & Alexander Vikman. (2009). Covariant Galileon. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 79(8). 693 indexed citations breakdown →
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Babichev, Eugeny, Viatcheslav Mukhanov, & Alexander Vikman. (2008). k-Essence, superluminal propagation, causality and emergent geometry. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2008(2). 101–101. 281 indexed citations
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Anisimov, Alexey, Eugeny Babichev, & Alexander Vikman. (2005). B-inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2005(6). 6–6. 147 indexed citations
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Vikman, Alexander. (2005). Can dark energy evolve to the phantom?. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 71(2). 390 indexed citations breakdown →

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